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TNET: Lesson Learned: Lack of focus, player issues led to Sugar Bowl loss
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TNET: Lesson Learned: Lack of focus, player issues led to Sugar Bowl loss
Dec 18, 2018, 1:21 PM
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Re: TNET: Lesson Learned: Lack of focus, player issues led to Sugar Bowl loss
Dec 18, 2018, 1:30 PM
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True that!
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I knew it I knew it I knew it
Dec 18, 2018, 4:05 PM
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Last year they had a GREAT time in New Orleans. I wanted to hear about their preparation and practice and focus on the game, and instead it was all about the fun things they were doing. Fun fun fun.
I’ve been mad at Dabo ever since. I love him, I think he’s just the finest man, Clemson is so fortunate to have him.....but sometimes his instincts just aren’t killer enough. Fun times won’t beat Nick Saban on the football field. Dabo did not have the team ready to play Alabama.
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Re: I knew it I knew it I knew it
Dec 18, 2018, 4:40 PM
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Get a life!
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Re: I knew it I knew it I knew it
Dec 18, 2018, 5:50 PM
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When have you ever known Dabo to not have a great game plan, the loss to Bama was on the lack of the players, not the coaching staff.
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Re: I knew it I knew it I knew it
Dec 18, 2018, 6:47 PM
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I respectfully disagree. I think that loss was on the coaches.
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Re: I knew it I knew it I knew it
Dec 18, 2018, 11:37 PM
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you are correct. i recall hearing that stuff about having some fun and thinking it sounded more like Tommy West than Dabo. Dabo has always had the guys ready for post season; 'cept last year.
I want to hear more of how much work they are putting in and not what they might get to see or do in Dallas.
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Re: I knew it I knew it I knew it
Dec 19, 2018, 10:00 AM
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The players can talk all they want about focus and whatnot. Clemson did no get beat because they partied. Anybody, anybody, who knows diddly about Dabo Swinney knows he would never let that happen. he didn't. They were ready. They got beat by a better team, they got beat because Clemson had second level wide receivers who would not compete for the ball and who frequently took the easy boundary route rather than the tough post routs, and we got beat because we had a QB too slow on his RPO reads taking away half of Clemson's offense, and then could not keep Alabama honest with deep throws.
In a large nutshell, that is it. Forget the rest of the mea culpas. Too many of us want to love our coach right up until we lose and then lecture him on what he did wrong. Clemson did as good as it was capable of doing. But those areas killed us.
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Re: I knew it I knew it I knew it
Dec 22, 2018, 11:22 AM
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I don't believe they partied but there were a few who showed signs of a bad sugar crash after all the beignets and cafe au lait.
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Re: I knew it I knew it I knew it
Dec 23, 2018, 1:59 PM
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Playing Alabama, you'd better be focused and it is amazing that we weren't. Now, can we learn from that and focus on a big, fast, talented Notre Dame team? If not, we'll go home early.
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Re: TNET: Lesson Learned: Lack of focus, player issues led to Sugar Bowl loss
Dec 23, 2018, 2:00 PM
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I totally agree. KB was exposed---end of game.
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Re: TNET: Lesson Learned: Lack of focus, player issues led to Sugar Bowl loss
Dec 18, 2018, 1:34 PM
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If confession is good for the soul, Notre Dame is in for a good public spanking.
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Well that and Alabama was just the better team.
Dec 18, 2018, 1:36 PM
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Last year's offense couldn't do squat against them.
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Re: Well that and Alabama was just the better team.
Dec 18, 2018, 1:47 PM
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If there was a gap, it wasn’t big. Remember, we beat Auburn and they didn’t. We came in as the #1 seed and our defense played well enough to win.
What it came down to is that their defense played better than our offense. Our offense looked unfocused and their defense looked mad about last year. KB was running for his life most of the night. Recievers dropped important catches. Just a poor effort from a lot of guys.
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Our offense looked like our offense always looked last year
Dec 18, 2018, 1:50 PM
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We basically had an LSU offense and it looked like a typical Bama-LSU game. We all know how those end.
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Re: Our offense looked like our offense always looked last year
Dec 18, 2018, 2:06 PM
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It was a rebuilding year for our offense and we were especially short handed when Tee Higgins got hurt, but I wouldn’t say we had an LSU offense. They were playing well at the end of the season.
We had a lot of opportunities to turn the game our way and the talent to do it, but we didn’t make plays.
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Re: Well that and Alabama was just the better team.
Dec 22, 2018, 10:30 AM
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Alabama likes to say they beat us badly last year. Truth is, their offense seemed only marginally better than ours. Our defense only gave up 10 points as I see it. The last 2 TDs were courtesy of our offense! But their defense won the game! They outplayed us.
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Actually what it came down to is
Dec 23, 2018, 2:57 PM
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Their punter was better than our punter. We lost 10-15 yards of field position on each exchange. In a defensive battle, that was the deciding factor.
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Re: Well that and Alabama was just the better team.
Dec 18, 2018, 1:47 PM
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If there was a gap, it wasn’t big. Remember, we beat Auburn and they didn’t. We came in as the #1 seed and our defense played well enough to win.
What it came down to is that their defense played better than our offense. Our offense looked unfocused and their defense looked mad about last year. KB was running for his life most of the night. Recievers dropped important catches. Just a poor effort from a lot of guys.
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Our offense looked like our offense always looked last year
Dec 18, 2018, 1:56 PM
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We basically had an LSU offense and it looked like a typical Bama-LSU game. We all know how those end.
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